Australian Immigration Daily News

From 17 November 2018 the Department of Home Affairs, will offer current Subclass 405 (Investor Retirement) as well as Subclass 410 (Retirement) visa holders ability to transition to permanent residence.

Briefly, subclass 405/410 visas are aimed at self-funded retirees who have no dependents and want to live in Australia during their retirement years.  These visas enable the applicants who are 55 years or older or with a set income of AUD$65,000 per year (or AUD$50,000 per year to live in a regional area) or a set investment to reside in Australia on a temporary basis.  However, both visa categories are now closed to new applicants.  The new Regulations target retirees who, at the time this change was announced in the Federal Budget on 8 May 2018, held a Subclass 405 (Investor Retirement) visa or a Subclass 410 (Retirement) visa, or who did not hold a substantive visa on that date and the last substantive visa held was one of those visas. In addition, the retiree must not have held a substantive visa, other than one of those visas, since 8 May 2018.

The new legislative instrument establishes a pathway to permanently regularise the status of ageing and increasingly vulnerable long-term temporary residents, holders of Retirement (subclass 410) and Investor Retirement (subclass 405) visas (Retirees), by providing them with a pathway to obtain a permanent visa.  By way of background, the Retirement visa was introduced more than 35 years ago to encourage self-supporting Retirees to bring overseas funds into the Australian economy and spend time in Australia as temporary residents at no cost to Australia’s social and welfare system.

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has shut down an elaborate contrived marriages syndicate operating out of Sydney.

A 32-year-old Indian national faced court on 30 October over his alleged role as the main facilitator.

A further four Australian citizens have also been charged for allegedly convincing individuals to fraudulently marry non-citizens seeking to obtain permanent residency.

Subregulation 2.07(5) - Migration Regulations 1994

The purpose of the instrument is to increase the eligible age range for Canadian and Irish applicants for the Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa, from an upper age limit of 30 to 35.

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A brilliant report about "Why Migrant Workers Do Not Recover Their Unpaid Wages In Australia" has been created by Bassina Farbenblum and Laurie Berg this month.

Temporary migrant workers comprise up to 11% of the Australian labour market.

Underpayment within this workforce is both widespread and severe.

The total permanent migration program outcome for 2017-18 was 162,417 places.

The program includes a set of programs managed within a ceiling, as well as the Child program which is demand driven and does not have a ceiling.

- The breakdown for those programs within the migration program, under the ceiling, was as follows:

• 111,099 places were delivered in the Skill stream;
• 47,732 places were delivered in the Family stream; and
• 236 places were delivered in the Special Eligibility stream.

- The outcome of Child visas for the year was 3350 places.

This outcome is consistent with the planning ceiling of 190,000 places set through the Government's budget process - with this figure a ceiling, not a target.